0:00.0	The Deadliest Man Alive. I'm Rebecca Lieb. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.
0:19.4	If you look through pages of a comic book in the 1970s, you probably came across and add for
0:24.8	The Deadliest Man Alive. The ad said he was the supreme grandmaster of the Black Dragon Fighting
0:30.9	Society. And he sold a book for a mere five dollars. You could learn dimmock aka the death touch.
0:39.4	This is the strange tale of martial arts and con master Count Dante. John Timothy Kean
0:47.5	was born in Beverly Chicago in 1939 to a very well off Irish American family. From a young age,
0:53.2	John had the world at his fingertips. But I doubt most people would be able to guess where his
0:58.2	life would go from there. He started boxing at a young age continuing through high school. Before
1:03.8	he joined the marine reserves and then the army where he got his first taste of martial arts
1:08.0	and John was hooked. He got his black belt in karate and then became a sensei himself before
1:13.9	he became the Midwest director of the USKA or the United States Karate Association. John had
1:19.8	bigger and better dreams though. So he left the association to help create the World Karate
1:24.6	Federation. But he didn't like that either. So he founded another organization called the World
1:30.4	Karate Federation not to be confused with the last two. It's like a thing to talk about. You're
1:35.6	just sorting words around and then what is it? It's all a burrito. Yeah. So once he was done creating
1:42.8	and leaving and creating organizations, John set his sights on reinventing martial arts.
1:47.6	Exactly what martial arts is all about. It's not a time-tested tradition perfected by many, many
1:53.1	people across generations. Just start a new. Yeah. And things, you know, evolve. Look at the UFC
2:01.2	and mixed martial arts. Like things evolve and people find ways to make the something old new or
2:07.6	takes a little of this and the little of that put it together. But I think he was like there's
2:11.7	going to be no evolution. It's going to just start right now. He had enough of all the ceremonies
2:16.5	and traditions that are integral to most martial arts. Yeah. Which I get a little bit. Sometimes
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